I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female members than males. Even that caused of much discussion about, "Will there be a market for this, and should there at least be equal number of male and females?"